HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080100110
Bassin · #1080100110
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 4 administrative regions : El M'Ghair, Hamraia, Oum Touyour, Still
Sub-basin area
1 236,8km²
Upstream area
16 289,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
21m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10801025302083 km²
- Bassin · #108010256012 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Oum TouyourEl Oued · Algeria641.7 km²51.9% of basin
- El M'GhairEl Oued · Algeria454.2 km²36.7% of basin
- 99.4 km²8.0% of basin
- 41.2 km²3.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Chott Merouane et Oued Khrouf
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
587.15 km² overlap
Chott Melrhir
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
58.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 22 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,0°C
Annual rain
94mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 606mm
AET
78mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
218cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)